Meanings
comparative more unmentionable · superlative most unmentionable
- Too embarrassing or shocking to be discussed.
Antonyms: mentionable
plural unmentionables
- Something not to be discussed in polite society.
I'm a lesbian female, 20 years old and my most outstanding features are my pierced unmentionable and my eyes.
1983 December 10, Mary F. Miller, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 21, page 192 more examples
He was taught from childhood that the world does not condone homosexuality and that it is an unmentionable of decent people.
1995, Virginia Schroeder Burnham, William H. Hampton, Since Time Began, page 43Here, after all, was the circle round which Forster passed the manuscript of his novel Maurice which conveyed so much about being 'an unmentionable of the Oscar Wilde sort'.
2014, Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma, page 100
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveToo embarrassing or shocking to be discussed.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveunsuitable or forbidden as a topic of conversation
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishmentionable
- Englishunmentionable
From un- + mentionable.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan inconfessable, innomenable
- inconfessabletoo embarrassing or shocking to be discussed
- innomenabletoo embarrassing or shocking to be discussed
Esperanto nemenciebla
- nemencieblatoo embarrassing or shocking to be discussed
Finnish sopimaton mainita
- sopimaton mainitatoo embarrassing or shocking to be discussed
French inavouable
- inavouabletoo embarrassing or shocking to be discussed
Norwegian unevnelig
- unevneligtoo embarrassing or shocking to be discussed
Polish niecenzuralny, nieparlamentarny
- niecenzuralnytoo embarrassing or shocking to be discussed
- nieparlamentarnytoo embarrassing or shocking to be discussed
Portuguese inconfessável
- inconfessáveltoo embarrassing or shocking to be discussed
Spanish inconfesable
- inconfesabletoo embarrassing or shocking to be discussed
Cite this entry
unmentionable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmentionable
“unmentionable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmentionable. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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